Ryan Fitzgerald had three assists to help Team McClanahan beat Team Housley 5-2 on Saturday night in the inaugural USA Hockey All-American Prospects Game.
Evan Allen scored both goals for Team Housley in front of a crowd of 5,519 fans in Buffalo.
Ryan Fitzgerald had three assists to help Team McClanahan beat Team Housley 5-2 on Saturday night in the inaugural USA Hockey All-American Prospects Game.
Evan Allen scored both goals for Team Housley in front of a crowd of 5,519 fans in Buffalo.
Commissioner Gary Bettman and NHLPA executive director Donald Fehr held a private meeting for the second straight day, while the larger group session centered on revenue during labor talks between the league and union Saturday in New York.
Fehr said the two had discussed ways for the league and union to bridge the gap and make some progress on brokering a new deal.
The NHL and the NHLPA started meetings for the second consecutive day in an attempt to end the ongoing lockout.
The sides were not expected to discuss the core economic issues on Saturday that are at the root of the dispute that threatens the start of the regular season.
Some progress was made on Friday on secondary issues related to player safety and drug testing.
Hockey Canada announced early Saturday morning that Nail Yakupov was now free to play in his native KHL.
Yakupov was suspended earlier this week from playing in Russia's Kontinental Hockey League while officials ironed out his status.
Rick Nash of the Rangers was injured while playing for HC Davos in a game Friday in the Swiss League, according to an ESPN.com report.
Nash, acquired in a trade by the Rangers from the Blue Jackets over the summer, suffered a shoulder injury after being hit into the boards.
Despite two sessions of negotiations and a private meeting between Gary Bettman and Donald Fehr on Friday, no progress has been made on the core economic issues of a new CBA and the likelihood any is made this weekend appears bleak.
Although the two sides are scheduled to reconvene Saturday and Sunday, those financial issues are not expected to be addressed, according to an ESPN.com report.
Evander Kane of the Jets has signed on with Dinamo Minsk of the KHL for the duration of the NHL lockout, his agent Craig Oster of Newport Sports confirmed to ESPN.com.
Kane had career highs with 30 goals and 27 assists in 74 games with the Jets last season.
The International Ice Hockey Federation is operating on the assumption that NHL players will take part in the 2014 Sochi Olympics, according to an ESPN.com report.
"We've prepared everything with the idea that NHL players will be there," IIHF president Rene Fasel said Friday. "We've decided about the format and expect them to be there."
Swiss hockey club Bern says it has signed Islanders center John Tavares during the NHL lockout, according to an ESPN.com report on Friday.
Bern says the 22-year-old Canadian will arrive in Switzerland Tuesday and start training the next day.
The NHL and its locked-out players are talking again, according to an ESPN.com report.
The sides have resumed negotiations at league headquarters Friday. These are the first talks since the lockout was put in place and they come a day after the league canceled the remaining preseason games.
The regular season is to start October 11.